Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, a controversial and polarizing figure from the Bush-era, will lead the U.S. private security firm Xe Services, Inc. in determining its ethics policies going forward, according to report by Spencer...

Read Part I, Part II, and Part III of the story: “One soldier’s harrowing journey from the Iraqi battlefield to suicide” Spencer hanged himself with his phone still displaying his ex-girlfriend’s house number. It was a...

Read Part I and Part II of the story: “One soldier’s harrowing journey from the Iraqi battlefield to suicide” The problems deepen: Multiple concussions linked to depression Sgt. Spencer Kohlheim had been wounded on two separate...

Coming home to LaGrange (Part I of the story here: One Iraq veteran’s journey from the battlefield to suicide) When we see of images of returning soldiers, more often than not, we see their homecoming. Young wives or husbands crying with joy,...

“He said three times that he should have just died in Iraq and I would have loved him forever, because he didn’t think we were going to get back together,” Krissy Caudill, Sgt. First Class Spencer Kohlheim’s fiancée said after his...

PBS’ Spencer Michels reports that John Yoo’s employment at the University of California at Berkeley continues to be a source of controversy. A complete transcript is available here. This video is from PBS’ Newshour, broadcast...